Hearing this, Heavenly Lord Hanjian said gravely:
"This match is probably about to end."
Xu Taiping asked with great curiosity:
"If Sun Tianshu were willing to confess earlier, wouldn't he suffer less torment?"
Heavenly Lord Hanjian shook his head.
"The Tianxing Scripture Chu Zheng cultivates is exceedingly sinister. What he calls a confession is far more than simply making his opponent admit to past crimes."
Heaven-Hunting Great Sage nodded.
"Exactly. Once a cultivator confesses, the Tianxing Scripture places an invisible shackle on them."
"Though this invisible shackle isn't fatal,"
"it can seize half of the cultivation power that cultivator gains over the next three hundred years, holding it until Chu Zheng comes to collect."
"Just like collecting rent in the mortal world."
Xu Taiping paused in surprise.
"No wonder Sun Tianshu would rather endure the agony of broken bones and scraped flesh than manifest his Primordial Spirit to confess!"
Just then, as Sun Tianshu's Primordial Spirit confessed to his past misdeeds, a boy who looked exactly like Boy Siyou standing before Xu Taiping and the others flew down onto the bronze platform.
Then the boy announced in a ringing voice identical to Boy Siyou's:
"The winner of this match is Chu Zheng of the Tianxing Bureau!"
Upon hearing this announcement, Heaven-Hunting Great Sage withdrew his gaze and attention entirely from the bronze platform, then looked gravely at Xu Taiping.
"Taiping, what do you think after watching that match?"
After a moment's contemplation, Xu Taiping answered:
"The methods of Chu Zheng from the Tianxing Bureau are indeed unlike anything I've seen in my life, but..."
After a pause, Xu Taiping's eyes suddenly blazed.
"But I can win!"
Through his Divine Soul perception, which the Bronze Prison had amplified more than tenfold, Xu Taiping could clearly sense from the match that Chu